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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many pieces among those you published in your youth which are...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron[juvenile poems]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy below/ For are the hearts whence one same touch/ Bids th...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans][Kindred hearts]Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde encore ignore le vrai nom/ Esprit mysterieux, mortel...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine[L'Homme]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Quack Med'cines to prevent growing fat, or perhaps to r...Hester Lynch Thrale [ladies memorandum books]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the troubles in the reign of Charles 1st, a/ country girl came ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Burns][Lady Mary Anne]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very ...Mary Augusta Ward [Latin and German writings about early Spanish lit...Print: Book
1850-1899'...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught. It consisted of strings of works, and of grim arra...Edmund Gosse [unknown][Latin Grammar]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dis...George Crabbe [Latin medical books]Print: Book
1800-1849'To my Gothic ear, indeed the "Stabat Mater", the "Dies Irae", and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church are more solemn and affecting than the fine classical po...Walter Scott George Buchanan[Latin poems and hymns]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... ; many of...Mountstuart Elphinstone John Milton[Latin poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Lord Hailes writes to me [...] "I am singularly obliged to Dr. Johnson for accurate and useful criticisms. Had he given some strictures ...David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes Samuel Johnson[Latin verses upon Inchkenneth]Manuscript: Unknown, in latin
1600-1699'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which I took great pleasure.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][law book?]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, so often as I have a spare moment, I am in the embra...Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[law books]Print: Book, Law books in the plural.
1600-1699'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][lecture on the globes]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons,...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lectures on art, drama, history, science and phil...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wm read his first 2 lectures on Poetry &c aloud which people seemed very much to like & I lay on the sofa & enjoyed myself in listening'.William Gaskell [lectures on poetry]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'at Night went to priuatt praier, after Mr Hoby had reed vnto me some notes of Mr Egertons Lecturs'Thomas Hoby Egerton[lectures]Unknown
1900-1945'Reading the ordinary papers occasionally, listening to the B.B.C. news sometimes, reading the Left wing papers sometimes, and trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff... [n/a][Left-wing newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to h...Anne Romilly [unknown][legal briefs]Unknown
1700-1799'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and proposed to read to him the printed papers concernin...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown


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